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The notion of entropy-regularized optimal transport, also known as Sinkhorn divergence, has recently gained popularity in machine learning and statistics, as it makes feasible the use of smoothed optimal transportation distances for data…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-11-05 Jérémie Bigot , Elsa Cazelles , Nicolas Papadakis

We develop a quantitative contraction framework for Schrodinger and Sinkhorn bridges based on transportation-cost inequalities and Riccati matrix difference equations. Our approach combines logarithmic Sobolev and Talagrand-type…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Pierre Del Moral

Sinkhorn algorithm is the de-facto standard approximation algorithm for optimal transport, which has been applied to a variety of applications, including image processing and natural language processing. In theory, the proof of its…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Kazuki Watanabe , Noboru Isobe

In [Q. Liao et al., Commun. Math. Sci., 20(2022)], a linear-time Sinkhorn algorithm is developed based on dynamic programming, which significantly reduces the computational complexity involved in solving optimal transport problems. However,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Ziyuan Lyu , Zihao Wang , Hao Wu , Shuai Yang

We show that the derivatives of the Sinkhorn-Knopp algorithm, or iterative proportional fitting procedure, converge towards the derivatives of the entropic regularization of the optimal transport problem with a locally uniform linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-04 Edouard Pauwels , Samuel Vaiter

Many problems in machine learning can be formulated as solving entropy-regularized optimal transport on the space of probability measures. The canonical approach involves the Sinkhorn iterates, renowned for their rich mathematical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Mohammad Reza Karimi , Ya-Ping Hsieh , Andreas Krause

The purpose of the present work is to expand substantially the type of control and estimation problems that can be addressed following the paradigm of Schr\"odinger bridges, by incorporating termination (killing) of stochastic flows.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-24 Asmaa Eldesoukey , Olga Movilla Miangolarra , Tryphon T. Georgiou

The article presents new entropic continuity bounds for conditional expectations and conditional covariance matrices. These bounds are expressed in terms of the relative entropy between different coupling distributions. Our approach…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Pierre Del Moral

Consider a reference Markov process with initial distribution $\pi_{0}$ and transition kernels $\{M_{t}\}_{t\in[1:T]}$, for some $T\in\mathbb{N}$. Assume that you are given distribution $\pi_{T}$, which is not equal to the marginal…

Computation · Statistics 2020-01-01 Espen Bernton , Jeremy Heng , Arnaud Doucet , Pierre E. Jacob

We consider the problem of designing uniformly stable first-order optimization algorithms for empirical risk minimization. Uniform stability is often used to obtain generalization error bounds for optimization algorithms, and we are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Amit Attia , Tomer Koren

We establish novel quantitative stability results for optimal transport problems with respect to perturbations in the target measure. We provide explicit bounds on the stability of optimal transport potentials and maps, which are relevant…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Octave Mischler , Dario Trevisan

We consider robust variants of the standard optimal transport, named robust optimal transport, where marginal constraints are relaxed via Kullback-Leibler divergence. We show that Sinkhorn-based algorithms can approximate the optimal cost…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Khang Le , Huy Nguyen , Quang Nguyen , Tung Pham , Hung Bui , Nhat Ho

In this paper, we explore quantitative stability of multi-marginal Schr\"odinger bridges with respect to the marginal constraints. We focus on the case where the number of marginal constraints is large (i.e. ``many-marginals"). When this…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Rentian Yao , Young-Heon Kim , Geoffrey Schiebinger

The optimal mass transport problem gives a geometric framework for optimal allocation, and has recently gained significant interest in application areas such as signal processing, image processing, and computer vision. Even though it can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-07 Johan Karlsson , Axel Ringh

The time dependent complex Schr\"odinger equation with cubic nonlinearity is solved by constructing differential quadrature algorithm based on sinc functions. Reduction to a coupled system of real equations enables to approach the space…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-11 Alper Korkmaz

Recent advances in flow-based generative modelling have provided scalable methods for computing the Schr\"odinger Bridge (SB) between distributions, a dynamic form of entropy-regularised Optimal Transport (OT) for the quadratic cost. The…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-04 Samuel Howard , Peter Potaptchik , George Deligiannidis

Entropic optimal transport (OT) and the Sinkhorn algorithm have made it practical for machine learning practitioners to perform the fundamental task of calculating transport distance between statistical distributions. In this work, we focus…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-11 Xun Tang , Holakou Rahmanian , Michael Shavlovsky , Kiran Koshy Thekumparampil , Tesi Xiao , Lexing Ying

The Sinkhorn algorithm is a numerical method for the solution of optimal transport problems. Here, I give a brief survey of this algorithm, with a strong emphasis on its geometric origin: it is natural to view it as a discretization, by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Klas Modin

The Schr\"odinger Bridge (SB) problem has become a fundamental tool in computational optimal transport and generative modeling. To address this problem, ideal methods such as Iterative Proportional Fitting and Iterative Markovian Fitting…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-27 Marta Gentiloni Silveri , Giovanni Conforti , Alain Durmus

We propose a procedure for estimating the Schr\"odinger bridge between two probability distributions. Unlike existing approaches, our method does not require iteratively simulating forward and backward diffusions or training neural networks…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-08-22 Aram-Alexandre Pooladian , Jonathan Niles-Weed